Letter case and wallet



Oct. Z7, 1925.

1,558,921 F. J. REICHLE LETTER CASE AND WALLET Filed NOV. 12 1924"ipartment Patented ct. 27, 19,25.

UNITED STATES I 1,558,921' PATENT oFFlcE. 'l

FREDERICK J. RRICVHLE, Ol' ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, AISSIGNOR T0 BROWN&BIGELOW,

OF ST. PAUL,` MINNESOTA, A CORPORATION O'F MINNESOTA.

LETTER CASE AND WALLET.

Application led November 12,1924. Serial No. 749,416.

To all whom 'it mag/concern.'

Be it known thatl I.' FRnDEmCK J. REICHLE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State ofMinnesota, have invented new.

and useful Improvements in vLetter Cases and Wallets, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relate@ to letter cases and wallets wherein compartmentsare larranged in an accessible position relative to the use of abillfold so that it can be carriedin the coat pocket t'o take'the placeof a wallet to hold bills, letters and cards which are easily accessiblewhen desired.

A feature of my invention is in providing a case made of leather orother suitable material so as to provide an attractive Wallet likeholder of a simple construction and having the compartments of the samearranged in co-relation with each other so as to give access to `letterson' one side of the case, bills on the other side. of the case andcalling or business cards held separately in a compartment associatedwith the letter holding compartment and accessible Withont disturbingthe letters in the letter com- It is desirable to wherein letters, cars, and bills may'be carried, each in a flat state without folding andwhile cases have been madebefore for letters, also for bills', they havebeen each separate wallet members and have not included a simpleconstruction Where the two are arranged together1 and provided with acard compartment as I have designed and arranged in my wallet case.

These features together with the simplicity of construction andarrangement of the parts will be more clearly and fully set forth in thespecification and claims.

In the drawings forming a part of these specifications l Figure 1 is aperspective view of the inside of my letter case and wallet.

Figure 2 is a section on the vline 2-2 of L Figure 1.

y Figure 3 1s a section yonv the line 3-'3 lof Figure 1. v

Figure Ltis a detail portion of my letter case and wallet illustratingan alternative formation' thereof. t

The drawings illustrate my case or wallet A', which i?.aformed ofleather'in the ordif free corner 19 of the flap 13 istfolded nary,well-known manner, having 'its outer facey formed of an art or missionleather finish while the inner Hap and p-arts are formed of leather orvother material suitably blended in color and inish'to match the outerfinish of the Wallet case, all of ordi,- nary construction and not shownin detail in the drawings because it is obvious that l detail ofconstruction as -to the filling or stifl'ening material within the caseor wallet 65 can be eliminated in relation to the material used- :is-thecovering,by reason of the fact that different thicknesses of leather canbe readily adapted to make up my case. Where my ease is made of heavyleather it isnot necessary that it have any stiening or i'iller withinthe same and in fact it does not even need a lining to make up thenecessary body to the side Walls. All of this construction is ofordinary, well-knowndetail and this is not illustrated' or pointed out.in the drawings.

My case A 1s provided Withfside Walls 10 and 11 which are formed fromthe same piece of material and folded together along the central portionof line 12 so that the walls 10 and 11 fold together and are ofapproximately uniform size. rovide a wallet case When folded the case Aforms alrectangular wallet case which is of a. size adapted to fitwithin theinside coat pocket conveniently in a manner to hold letters,bills and cards protected within the case, but very accessible.

' 'lhe side wall 10 is provided with an integral flap 13 which is foldedalong the edge 14 and is'stitchedat 15 along the bottom edgel of thecase A. 'The flap 13 folds, over onto the insidel of the wall 10 and isprovided withan angularlydisposed downwardly inclined edge 17, whichprovides a cut-away. portion to thelRP 13. so

ythat letters held 'within the compartment 18, formed by the flap 13folding onto the side 10, permits the' letters to be easily loo turnedover at the corner, when the u per Back so that any` letter can beremoved individually from the compartment 18. The stitching of thewalllO and the flap 1 3 at the line 15 closes the same so that the caseis closed at the end 16 of the same and holdsl the letters fromvslipping out from this end of the compartment.

" 'Within the compartment 18y is'provided a 110 a simple constructionfor the letter and card compartments which are compactly arrangedtogether to take up a small amount of space.

Within the wall 11 is provided a compartment 22 for paper bills, bystitching the flap 23' at 24 along the bottom 16 and at 25 along thelongitudinal edge 26 of the wall 11. In this'manner the Hap 23 isprovided With a free upper corner 27 which can be folded back asillustrated in Figure 1 to give free l access to the bills Within thecompartment 22.

The flap 23 is shorter in length than the Wall 11 so-that the upper edge28 of the same is spaced from the upper edge 29 of the case or Wallet A,and stitched to the end 29 at 30 is a second lap- 31 to form a coverflap over the edge 28 and corner 27 of the flap 23.

The flap 31 is provided with angularly extending and downwardlydepending edges 32 and 33 which come together to form a dependingpointed portion 34 extending below the side edges 35 of the Hap 31. Thispointed portion 34 forms a protruding portion which has a tendency tolock the free edge 28 beneath the flap 31 and to provide a shoulder at34 .which can be engaged by the thumb or finger to raise the flap 31slightly. The inclined'faces 32 and 33 engage against the edge 28 of theflap 23 when the flap 23 is turned back as illustrated in Figure 1 toremove the corner 27 from beneath the flap 31 and the angularinclination of the sides 32 and 33 together with the shoulder at 34having a tendency toresist the opening of the flap 23.

The shortness of the flap 31 increases the resistance ofthe same agalnstthe edge 28 to hold the same under this flap 31 and the inclined edge 33permits the flap 23 to be partially opened p'at the shoulder or pointedend 34 so that paper bills can be removed from the compartment 22Without opening this compartment to the extent of removing the corner 27as illustrated in Figure l. When the compartment 22 is opened in thismanner the flap 31 bears against the edge 28 to cause the same to bereadily moved into closed position by any slight pressure on the iap 31to overcome the frictional engagement by the edges 28 and 33. Moreoverthe edge 33 has a tendency to force against the edge 28 to form a camaction which is inclined to move the flap 23 into closed position.

The short length of the flap 31 together with the angularly disposededges 32 and 33 form an important feature of my case and provides a veryeffective compartment for holding` bills inx conjunction with the othercomparments 18 and 20 for letters and cards respectively so that theuser of my case can have all of these advantages in carrying my walletcase.

It is essential to provide a leather case which is wear resisting andmade up of mission or art leather so as to provide an attractive holderfor letters, cards and bills. Business men desire to have their lettersof importance, business cards, and bills in readiness for use at anytime and yet held togetherin one case so that they can be removed 'fromthe pocket collectively and held accessible for immediate use from anyof the compartments. This is' accomplished in my case and thus I haveprovided a holder for letters, cards and bills which business mendrawings illustrate a particular formationl of the same, I desire tohave it understood that these are onlv illustrative and that theinvention can be carried out by other means and applied'to uses otherthan those above set forth or within the scope of the following claims.

I claim:

' 1. A letter case and Wallet including a body portion adapted to formtwo uniform side walls connected together in a manner to fold onto eachother, a letter compartment within one Wall, a bill compartment withinthe other of said walls, and a card compartment attached to theinnervwall of said letter compartment.

2. A letter case and Wallet comprising side walls of a uniform sizeadapted to fold onto each other, a flap formed integral with the -sideWalls and folded in a manner to extend over the inside of one of saidwalls and stitched along one end of said wallet to forni a lettercompartment within one of said side Walls, a flap secured to the innerside of the other side Wall stitched along the bottom and longitudinalside of said wallet, having one end thereof spaced away from the end ofthe wallet and a short flap adapt'- ed to cover the space on the insideof the wallet, from .which the -end of said second Hap is spaced, in amanner to overlap the spaced end t0 form a bill compartment closed atone end and accessible at the other end by raising the sho-rt flap byengagement with the end of the flap covered by said short flap.

3. A letter case and wallet including a pair of side Walls having auniform size and adapted to fold onto each other, one end of said walletforming the bottom and the other end forming the top,llaps extendingover the inside of said side walls and closed along the bottom andlongitudinal side edges of said wallet to form two adjacent com)artments with the adjacent inner edges o the flaps spaced from eachother and free to be turned back to open the compartments along theinner and upper edges of said compartments respectively, a short flapsecured along the upper edge of one of said side walls to cover the flapsecured on -tha-t side of the wallet, adapted to form a guard for the'upper end of that compartment whereb1 the bills may be concealed Withinthat compartment and a card case compartment ccncealed within said othercompartment on the. wall adjacent the bill compartment. 4. A Walletincluding a book fold formation, a letter case compartment on one sideof said Wallet, a bill compartment on the other side of said wallet' anda card case compartment within and concealed by said letter casecompartment. 5. A letter case and Wallet comprising a vbody portionadapted to be folded to form 'v two side walls of uniform size, aportion in'- tegral with one of said sigles folded to form a flap on theinside thereof to provide a letterl pocket,fa card pocket -concealedwithinv said letter pocketand a ypair of flaps secured to the sideopposite said letter pocket adapt,- ed to fold over each other in amannerto form a pocket adapted to concealbills Within the same. i

6. A letter case and wallet including pair of side Walls of uniform sizeadapted to fold onto each other, a Aflap .formed in.- tegral with oneofsaid side walls folded over onto the inside of said side Wall andstitched along the end thereof to form a let'- terI compartment, the endopposite said stitched end of said flap extending at an in-- wardlyinclined angle toward the stitched end to providean open corner on theinside of said letter compartiment, a card pocket concealed beneath saidletter compartment flap and having the open end thereof 4inclined withthe same angular position that said letter compartment flap has,

. a pair of flaps secured to'the side Wall adjacent said lettercompartment, one' of said flaps vhaving a rectangulam formation andstitched along* two sides thereof to the bottom and outer longitudinaledge of said Wal# inner edge thereof formed with angularlydisposedportions extending inwardly to form a polnted end at the juncture ofsaid inclined edges and adapted', to overlap the free end of the otherflapv in a manner to form a bill compartment 'which'is adapted l toconceal bills within the same, which when opened permits the free endofthe bill flap to engage with the angularly disposed edges of the flapsecured at the upper end of said wallet. 4 l

7. A letter case and Wallet including uniform vside walls adapted 't/fold onto each other, a lettern pocket formed on the insideof one ofsaid wallsand a bill receiving pocket formed on the inside of the otherofsaid walls, a pair of overlapping flaps adapted to close the billcompartment to conceal the bills therein, and a card pocket concealedwithin said letter pocket, each of said pockets havingthe freeo enedgesthereof positioned at the center o cent each other. i

8."A pocket piece including a letter cornpartment, a bill compartmentoppositelT disposed tothe letter compartment, locking flap .for the freeedge of the bill compartment said flap being formed with a dependingshoulder like portion which is adapted to depend over thefreeedge of theflap of the bill compartment to hold the :same in closed position.

9. A Wallet including two oppositely disposed compartments 4and a cardlcompartmentsecured to the back wall of one of said compartments Withinthe ,same in a manner to-conceal the card compartment back of thearticles carried in the compartment in which the card compartment isplaced.

105A pocket wallet including a pair of compartments having closure flapswith free/ly disposed corners, a cover flap adapted to extend overthefree edge of one of said compartments, said cover. flap being formedwith inclined faces oppositely disposed forming a depending shoulderextending over thefree edge of the flap covered thereby to form alockingmeans for holding the. free edge of the ap in oper or`closedposition.

FREDERICK J.- REICHLE. f

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